Deep furrows

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Movie
Original title Deep furrows
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1965
length 81 minutes
Rod
Director Lutz Koehler
script Lutz Köhlert,
Helmut Sakowski
production DEFA , German television broadcaster
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Roland Graef
cut Monika Schindler
occupation

Deep Furchen is a German DEFA film directed by Lutz Köhlert from 1965 . It is based on motifs from the 1949 novel of the same name by Otto Gotsche .

action

Immediately after the war , the communist Schuster returned to his village after many years of imprisonment under the Nazis . His first encounters at the village church are cautious, his wife is dead, another family lives in his house. He is accepted by Hübner and his daughter Agnes. He ponders his suffering in prison, his hatred and his feelings of revenge against the followers of the Nazi regime, but Agnes warns him that one must continue with these people.

A short time later he was appointed mayor by the district administrator. Schuster meets with open rejection from some of the villagers, while others such as Höhne and Hübner crowd around him and support his approach. His first official acts included the arrest of the Black Sea German , who was suspected of being plundered, and the confiscation of grain on the farm of the large Winter family to ensure supplies for the village population. Mrs. Winter and son Arthur can only watch as the sacks are dragged from the fodder floor. Gebhard, employed by Winters as a servant, who had bought the Schusters house at auction and now lives in it with his family, helps out out of personal shame. Gebhard's son Georg and his friend Arthur Winter, however, are permeated by the fascist spirit and openly oppose the new era.

When the Red Army moves into the village, the Black Sea German is released. He slandered Schuster as a fascist, so that the Soviets dismissed him as mayor and installed the Black Sea German. Georg and Arthur get into an argument about the 16-year-old refugee girl Marianne, who works as a maid on the winter farm. Arthur saw her as the object of his pleasure satisfaction, Georg developed a real romance with her.

After a scuffle between the village women in the butcher's shop and the new mayor’s wife over food cards , the Russian officer recognizes his mistake in believing the Black Sea German through clarifying words from the soldier Nikolai, and Schuster takes over the mayor’s office again. At a village meeting, Schuster asked the villagers to propose a "committee of anti-fascists" for participation because he saw that he could not do everything by himself and that he needed the support of the village. They organize the gathering of the harvest for the village on the winters property. At the insistence of Schuster, Höhne and Hübner, Gebhard takes over the trusteeship for the estate of the expropriated Winters until it is distributed to the smallholders.

After the ordinance on land reform was proclaimed, the Countess von Waalen, large landowner of the Waalen manor and widow of an officer of the Hitler resistance , gathered her workforce and explained her view of the injustice of land reform and the uselessness of the fragmentation of the agricultural land. She receives the approval of the farmers employed by her for a petition against the land reform regulation, but the shoemaker, who is also present, agitates against it.

Georg prepares for his planned escape to the American Occupation Zone with Arthur , but his parents surprise him while he is packing. As the last act of sabotage, Arthur sets fire to the Winter estate and kills Marianne, who witnessed his crime. Mrs. Winter refuses to flee. Arthur races off alone with the pair . The fire is discovered by the villagers before it can spread. The sight of the dead Marianne purifies Georg.

production

The film was a production of the DEFA group "Red Circle" and one of only seven co-productions between DEFA and the DFF . It had its premiere on September 2, 1965 in the DFF and in the cinema in Neubrandenburg and was a contribution to the 20th anniversary of the land reform .

Renate Krößner made her film debut with Deep Furchen .

criticism

The film service recognizes that the film is a “milieu-fair description of the conditions at that time”, but considers this to be “artistically below average due to embarrassing rumors”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duration of the MDR broadcast on December 27/28, 2016 on the occasion of Erwin Geschonneck's 110th birthday
  2. ↑ The collaboration between DFF and DEFA at the Federal Agency for Civic Education (pdf)
  3. ↑ Michael Wedel, Barton Byg, Andy wheels, Skyler Arndt-Briggs, Evan Torner: DEFA international: Cross-border film relationships before and after the wall was built. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-19076-1 , p. 101 limited preview in the Google book search
  4. ↑ Deep furrows. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 28, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used